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Hi SoWhy, can you please check the second reference on the page Jakob Liv Rosted Sverdrup? First, I don't know if it's ok to link to a basic google translation of a page, and second, I don't know if it will work for everybody, or if it's only working for me because I accessed the page (the url itself has loads of numbers and mentions mozilla quite a few times). And third, if it is ok to link to the translation and if it does work for you, is where I put "google translation" ok? I didn't see any already formatted way of doing this on the citation templates page.
I'm still working on the page so forgive any messes. It's a lot better than it was! Thank you, :-) Maedin\ talk 22:09, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that in your message to Traffic 1, you used the jargon WP:COI and WP:NPOV. Please be careful about using these phrases - it would be much more helpful to tell a newcomer that something doesn't satisfy [[WP:NPOV|Wikipedia's rule on neutral point of view]], where the text of the message tells him/her what to expect, than to quote the shortcuts at him/her, even when the shortcuts link to the page. Please notice that in my message I provided a link to NPOV, but the text of the link is "neutral", not NPOV. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Explain jargon#Wikipedia jargon. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:58, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy, I was wondering, are you interested in having a request for adminship anytime soon? I'd like to nominate you if that's OK. I think you're well qualified for it. What do you think? how do you turn this on 13:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I've not yet had a chance to look into your contrib history. The permalink was a good idea. Might drop you a little questionnaire. Watch this space. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I've replied here. A while back, a user had made the imho great suggestion to create a very similar option to automatically include a link to a custom Google search. user: Everyme 13:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
See below. – xeno ( talk) 01:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Alan Fine (born June 12, 1953) is an author, executive coach, consultant and speaker. Fine began his career as a tennis coach in the United Kingdom. In the late 1970’s he worked with Graham Alexander and Sir John Whitmore using Timothy Gallwey’s Inner Game as part of their coaching process. An outcome of their work was the development of the performance model G.R.O.W. (Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward/Will).
Fine has coached athletes in Europe and the United States. They include Davis Cup tennis team member Buster Mottram, PGA member Stephen Ames, CBS golf commentator and Ryder Cup participant David Feherty, and European PGA golfers Colin Montgomery, Phillip Price, Paul Lawrie, Bradley Dredge and David Llewellyn. He has also worked with Professional Squash player Phil Kenyon, the British Olympic Fencing team and the Welsh Amateur Golf Team.
In 1985 Alan Fine founded InsideOut Development, a professional training and organizational consulting firm. He consults with individuals and organizations to increase performance, as well as providing executive coaching and leadership training.
Alan Fine is the author of Play to Win Golf (w/ David Feherty) and InsideOut Golf: How to Achieve Peak Performance as well as a contributing author to Coaching for Leadership by the Drucker Foundation. He is the author of the book InsideOut: Discovering and Doing What’s Possible. Fine has also contributed articles to GolfWorld and Golf International.
Basic ideas
Several principles common through Fine’s writings:
• Performance increase comes from the Inside Out
• Performance = Capacity – Interference
• Keys to performance – Faith (what people believe), Fire (what people have passion about) and Focus (what people pay attention to)
• Use of the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward)
• Change comes when a person is performance driven, not coach driven (dependent)
Biography
Alan Fine was born on June 12, 1953. He moved to the United States in 1993. He resides with his wife Penny and two children, Kristin and Tim, in Sandy, Utah.
References
Alan Fine profile at IE Consulting
Players Champion Credits InsideOut Founder GolfersMag.com
Nicholson, Ewan, The Truth about Stephen Ames, ScoreGolf Magazine, June 2008, pgs. 19, 22, 24-25
Fine, Alan (1999). InsideOut Golf: How to Achieve Peak Performance, ISBN: 0967253004
External Links
Website of InsideOut Development
ASTD June 2008 Keynote speech: Understanding and Influencing Breakthrough Performance
Hey there, I saw you participated in Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Jamesontai 2, so I concluded you are online at the moment. I !voted neutral just before you, citing a deleted page ( Creating new wikipedia article) that the candidate tagged CSD#A7. He replied that the page might have been updated after his tagging, so I'd like to ask if you could provide me a copy of the specific revision which he tagged as {{ db-a7}}. Regards So Why 10:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (166/43/7). I appreciate your comments and in my actions as an administrator I will endeavor to maintain the trust you have placed in me. I am honored by your trust and your support. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 01:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC) |
I put Korelko up on the translation board instead, if it's still a advert we can just speedy it later. Whispe ring 09:19, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Wow, thanks! I guess I don't really feel like anything has changed after my RfA. The only difference is that now I use block, protect, and delete rather than AIV, RFPP, and CSD. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 17:51, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for adopting me, lets be friends, by the way i saw you were a socialist that is pretty funny. :) No Hollaback Girl ( talk) 10:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I should have noted the reason I posted on AN/I instead of RFPP. I was an admin once also, and amongst other things I actually started WP:AN. :-) Tbsdy lives ( talk) 11:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, SoWhy, I have a bit of a convoluted question for you!
I've noticed while reading about the United States Constitution that most articles on amendments to the Constitution are considered proper and capitalised as such, including the word Amendment itself. For example, Child Labor Amendment. There are several amendments in one place at List of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution, and scanning through that I see that each page on a specific amendment has been capitalised.
At United States Constitution#Unratified amendments I noticed that the article Titles of Nobility amendment does not capitalise the word amendment, which is different from the way that the others have been done. There is a redirect at Titles of Nobility Amendment and I checked its move log–there is nothing there to suggest that it used to be capitalised and was then changed. I also checked the history of the current article and see that it was created in 2003, and that the redirect was created a whole year later.
I've read the guidelines on WP:Naming conventions (capitalization) and have followed lots of the links to other related guidelines, and don't see anything specific on amendments. My best guess is that consistency is the ideal, and that as the majority of amendments have been capitalised, that this one should be, too. I'm a little bit wary, though, of making the move, or even suggesting it on the talk page. Do you think I should be bold and move "Titles of Nobility amendment" to "Titles of Nobility Amendment", putting the redirect at the former article instead, or should I propose it on the talk page first, or do you think I should keep my nose out of it and leave it all as is?
Hope that wasn't too confusing. :-/ Thanks! Maedin\ talk 12:45, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. It is very much appreciated. :) The RfA was closed as successful with 73 supports, 3 opposes and 4 neutral. I would especially like to thank WBOSITG for nominating me. Best wishes and thanks again, — αἰτίας • discussion• 22:51, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey, sorry I didn't get back to you right away. I intended to, then got bogged down with on and off wiki stuff. My activity is actually waning as of late due to personal issues, so I won't be able to adopt User:Leahtwosaints. By all means, if you have the time, adopt him/her : ) Cheers mate. Wisdom89 ( T / C) 20:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
...didn't you tell me you did this? Syn ergy 06:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
hello how are you. I got an antivandal tool which is pretty awesome. Any advice, Bye. by the way i found these things called barn stars and think you should get one
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The Guidance Barnstar | |
message No Hollaback Girl ( talk) 06:37, 20 September 2008 (UTC) |
I understand that the approach for handling the underlying issue ("present" vs. numeric dates) is dispute resolution, but when did dispute resolution become the appropriate avenue to pursue NPA violations. Once he started with the names, they haven't stopped ... started with lazy, went to army brat, and proceeded to pain in the ass without a sense of humor on WP:ANI. There is admin intervention required ... an admonition to Mr. Cupertino that WP:NPA is policy, and warning him that he will be blocked even if others decide that he is right in the underlying dispute. Kww ( talk) 18:29, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks again for helping me, would it be ok to remove that section now? Ill leave it up to you «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 10:52, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
so will you talk to me? i only effed up that article for attention —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.227.3.195 ( talk) 11:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
but why? trolling is so much more fun on wikipedia! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.227.3.195 ( talk) 12:57, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
aw, c'mon now, i thought we were building a relationship here! you can't just dump and ban me! we have a commitment! i want to make this wooork, don't leave me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.227.3.195 ( talk) 13:39, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Having trouble with User:Pieterbotha and User:Joe40oz. These two accounts were created only 3 minutes apart from each other and are editing similar pages, Mike McCurry (referee) and Ian Paisley, so I suspect they are sockpuppets at the very least. The information they are adding is libellous and defamatory. Twice at the Mike McCurry page and once at the Ian Paisley page, User:Pieterbotha has undone my edits undoing his edits. I think it's only a matter of time before he does the same at the Ian Paisley page, and I don't want to get into an edit war, lol. So, my questions are: do I report suspected sockpuppetry or do I need more solid evidence? Do I go to Mike McCurry where MY edits have been reverted and re-revert them? If so or if not, should I take this to a noticeboard for administrator attention, even though they technically haven't received the right number of warnings? Is it an edit war if it's just vandalism? Helllpppp :)))) Maedin\ talk 18:45, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my RfA nomination, SoWhy. I appreciate the confidence. Cbl62 ( talk) 06:05, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm considering nominating you for RfA.
Please could you list below your last 10 significant AfD contributions. I'm especially interested in seeing AfDs you've nommed, responded to first, or "swam against the tide", so if there's none of them in the last 10, feel free to make the list longer. -- Dweller ( talk) 09:18, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
That's fine, and helpful.
Q2 - answer/don't answer as you wish - what prompted the massive surge of editing in the last couple of months? What kind of level do you think you'd plateau at, medium term, say over the next six months or so? -- Dweller ( talk) 10:35, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
<e/c - I'll read the above in a mo'> Q3 Re: Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2008_August_24. I'd be interested to know what you now think about the debate surrounding your contributions at this DRV. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:54, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey SoWhy. Your RfA page was in my watchlist so I saw it anyway and decided to support straight off thinking it was live, but I had to revert that upon finding it wasn't. Anyway, I've been a bit bold and co-nommed you. Hope you don't mind. — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 16:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh my God (sorry I know you're an atheist), Congradulations SoWhy you're going to be an Administrator I'm so proud of you. If you need my support like in a vote or however you get elected just ask me. By the way I need some help, using my anti vandal software (Pretty Awesome) I find vandalised pages and I revert the edit but what do I if the vandal has made numerous edits when I revert the fist one the rest of the vandalisations are still there and when i revert the last one it says there has been a conflict of edits or something, help. No Hollaback Girl ( talk) 05:55, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Sure, I'll be happy to elaborate on that. Would you like me to explain my reasoning here, or on the RfA page? Cheers, – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 12:48, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
I built an article about Princess Marie (1874-1878), a granddaughter of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and posted it there. 24 later it was removed, because it was "not relevated for the German Wikipedia".
Here is an article about Marie, that's very well.
That's my problem in the German Wikipedia. I built articles and they were deleted.
The people here are yery nice. Better than in the German Wikipedia. -- AndreaMimi ( talk) 16:23, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
@SoWhy
How are you ?
You are right. Its very good to be here. I passed the A-Level with the mark "C" , but thats many years ago. I read some books in english and unterstand a lot of the sentences, not all.
In the German Wikipedia there are Austrians - like me - too. German and Austrian are different languages. ;)
I wish you a nice day. And hope I can come back there in the evening. Don't worry, all is well, for example my health.
But I have to do so many things, not here. :( They are a little bit important then the Wikipedia. -- AndreaMimi ( talk) 12:50, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
I study in Salzburg, but I live in Oberösterreich (you know, what Oberösterreich is ?) . It's the nearst university. I go by bus to Salzburg in the morning and returne in the evening. The next term starts on October 6.
I'm very sorry, that I think you are from Germany. Its a very bad mistake.
I hope, I'll see you this weekend. Tomorrow I have no time for the Wikipedia. But on the weekend.
My next projects are articles about: Rosemarie von Trapp (1929), Eleonore von Trapp Campbell (1931) and Johannes von Trapp (1939). There are less ressources and pictures too. But I try to give my best. -- AndreaMimi ( talk) 18:07, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Yes, you are right. The elections are in Austria on Sunday. Let's see, what happens. ;)
I want to have the Kings and Queens back. :( In Austria and in Germany. There are so many people, who have a King or/and a Queen in the family for example Georg Ferdinand of Hohenzollern (born 1976). He has neither a wife, not children.
He is free for me. ;)
Its a very hard work to find ressources about this members of the Trapp Family and pictures too. Johannes was in Austria in July of this year together with his halfsister Maria Franziska von Trapp. He speaks German, but he was born in Amerika. Rosemary works as a missionar and Eleonore, who was nicknamed "Lorli", is married to Hugh David Campbell (since 1954), has seven daugthers and a lot of grandchildren.
Ressource: William Anderson/David Wade, "The World of the Trapp Family", 1998. I have this book at home. It's easy to read.
I wish you a nice weekend. -- AndreaMimi ( talk) 21:15, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Why do I get the horrible, horrible feeling that your RfA is just going to become a battleground for and against religion? *sigh* — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 11:38, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing my userbox, too :) — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 16:56, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
There is one waiting for you. XF Law talk at me 06:01, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
As requested, I have cleaned up your RFA. fish& karate 13:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
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For constantly reverting vandalism from Wikipedia. Tohd8BohaithuGh1 ( talk) 19:59, 26 September 2008 (UTC) |
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Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (154/3/2). I appreciate the community's trust in me, and I will do my best to be sure it won't regret handing me the mop. I am honored by your trust and your support. Again, thank you. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 18:12, 27 September 2008 (UTC) |
Good answer to my question on trivia, you have my support. Good luck! - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 04:15, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Heyyy, thanks for the change to my userpage :)
I wanted to ask you, why do people put an exclamation mark in front of the word vote? !Vote seems a very silly euphemism to me for something that obviously means vote anyway, so . . . it can't be that, surely?
I also have a hypothetical question. Not hypothetical because I haven't come across the situation, but hypothetical because it was a while ago now and too late to actually do anything about it. An experienced user (recently became an admin, actually) reverted (using Huggle, I think) a good edit which had deleted some content within a section. The diff, however, made it fairly clear that it wasn't just a mass delete – select sentences were retained and sentence structures changed, and because I'm familiar with the article, I know that there has been on-going discussions regarding the need to drastically reduce the size of the article, so the edit was definitely on the right track. It was done by an IP though, and apart from the section heading, there was no edit summary. So, the person who reverted it made a booboo, in my opinion, and I seem to have been the only one to spot it. It's too late to just undo, so I plan to go back and edit the text to reflect the IP's original edit. So, having said all of that, the question is: should I have told the admin about his revert (not just an undo) to a perfectly acceptable edit? Should I go to the IP's talk page and delete the vandalism warning? Or do I go there and just leave a comment, saying that the warning was left in error? Or do I just let it go? Presumably, it isn't a mistake which is likely to happen again or very often.
And one other thing: did you get my email? It was ages ago now. And I sincerely apologise to you for getting involved, too, I had been trying to stay away! It seems like the more one tries to stay away, the more one is likely to then come charging in, guns blazing or sword raised or axe swinging or...ok, I've run out of weapons. Enjoy your Sunday! :) Maedin\ talk 13:48, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
I knowwwwwww, it's me again.
Here just to ask: what does (e/c) mean?
I see it the beginning of a line when someone responds to a comment which isn't the comment directly above theirs, so they usually un-indent to the appropriate margin, too. I tried googling it but I just got stuff on E=mc squared. Maedin\ talk 07:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for tidying that up :) Much needed, -- ROGER DAVIES talk 10:46, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you wery much for helping me in the begining I have learned a lot. No Hollaback Girl ( talk) 12:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
I've add a follow-up to an optional question you've already answered:
It seems reasonable to press for a more fully-developed comment and analysis. In my view, this is a hard, fast pitch, but it is not at all inappropriate in this context. Your answer will be read by a number of editors who would not necessarily pay much attention to what you do or say in other venues. This becomes a unique opportunity to affect the evolving consensus on a key point which comes up again and again in all sorts of circumstances.
Now that your elevation to the ranks of administrators is virtually assured, you have an opportunity to introduce a salutatory comment. In effect, my question becomes an invitation to convert this confirmation exercise into something constructive.C)
Asenine presented a lady or the tiger conundrum -- excellent, unavoidable, illuminating. The only correct answer is the one which illuminates the way in which the alternatives and consequences are evaluated. The question goes to the heart of the reasoning processes which inform good judgment. It also creates an opportunity to grapple with the most difficult challenge which the most highly-valued administrators face with grace and tact -- expressing themselves persuasively and constructively.
Diplomacy is sometimes the art of avoiding saying anything which might possibly cause a ripple of a problem to arise; and many appear to have been persuaded that this kind of non-specific diplomatic prose will serve Wikipedia's broader, long-term objectives. I see the merit in that cautious, restrained attitude; however, in my view, in this very limited setting, that approach is misplaced. This is a unique opportunity and a more revealing answer to a difficult question should be seen as appropriate, seemly, and welcome. -- Tenmei ( talk) 16:37, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Just saw your RfA closed as successful! Congrats! Nice userbox, by the way :) Erik the Red 2 ~~ ~~ 01:50, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
It seems that you just got promoted. Good luck. I am sure someone else will come along shorty to give you your shirt. Now, get to work!- Icewedge ( talk) 01:51, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on your promotion. I have no doubt that you'll be an excellent admin. Also I was very impressed with the grace and dignity you showed during the RfA process. Be well, X MarX the Spot ( talk) 02:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, thanks everyone, I am really really surprised as to how many people supported my RfA. I will not send out RfA-thank-spam but thank you all for !voting on it here. Have a wonderful day! :-) So Why 06:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Can you tell me what you are taking to be a claim of notability? I only see an assertion that he is a writer, a few notes about what he has written, and an assertion that he is working as an archivist. — Largo Plazo ( talk) 07:06, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy, congrats on your RfA! Just a note about RfPP requests; it's probably not necessary to remove requests shortly after fulfilment, as they eventually get removed by a bot. I don't know about you, but I generally preferred to leave the requests there in case anyone queried it shortly after occurrence. Just some food for thought. :) Congrats again! PeterSymonds (talk) 09:01, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Welcome to adminship :) I'll join you, someday! You're my first nomination (well, co-nom) too :) Have fun! — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 14:46, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Why'd you delete my article? It said it didn't show significance of a real person, Andrew Bradt IS real! He's just not well known... yet. | Nitsed00 ( talk) 20:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)Love Always, Dan :]<3
hi
you have just deleted the newly created page of eMailaya because it an advertisement how come incerdimail does have a page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredimail and i can not put one of my own?
thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emailaya ( talk • contribs) 07:46, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Doh! My bad for trying to speedy it, I blame the lack of coffee. - TexMurphy ( talk) 08:20, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
When blocking educational institutes for an extended period of time (>1 month), consider using {{ schoolblock}} as the blocking reason - this way when a (potentially good faith) person tries to edit from the school they will be shown the template and given guidance on how to edit around the block. – xeno ( talk) 14:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy! If the talk page of an IP contains a warning or warnings, can I revert / undo if the IP blanks the page? This removal of a warning happened only a minute after it was placed, and I checked the article's diff to make sure it was vandalism (it was). Maedin\ talk 19:00, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | → | Archive 10 |
Hi SoWhy, can you please check the second reference on the page Jakob Liv Rosted Sverdrup? First, I don't know if it's ok to link to a basic google translation of a page, and second, I don't know if it will work for everybody, or if it's only working for me because I accessed the page (the url itself has loads of numbers and mentions mozilla quite a few times). And third, if it is ok to link to the translation and if it does work for you, is where I put "google translation" ok? I didn't see any already formatted way of doing this on the citation templates page.
I'm still working on the page so forgive any messes. It's a lot better than it was! Thank you, :-) Maedin\ talk 22:09, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that in your message to Traffic 1, you used the jargon WP:COI and WP:NPOV. Please be careful about using these phrases - it would be much more helpful to tell a newcomer that something doesn't satisfy [[WP:NPOV|Wikipedia's rule on neutral point of view]], where the text of the message tells him/her what to expect, than to quote the shortcuts at him/her, even when the shortcuts link to the page. Please notice that in my message I provided a link to NPOV, but the text of the link is "neutral", not NPOV. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Explain jargon#Wikipedia jargon. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:58, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy, I was wondering, are you interested in having a request for adminship anytime soon? I'd like to nominate you if that's OK. I think you're well qualified for it. What do you think? how do you turn this on 13:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I've not yet had a chance to look into your contrib history. The permalink was a good idea. Might drop you a little questionnaire. Watch this space. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I've replied here. A while back, a user had made the imho great suggestion to create a very similar option to automatically include a link to a custom Google search. user: Everyme 13:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
See below. – xeno ( talk) 01:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Alan Fine (born June 12, 1953) is an author, executive coach, consultant and speaker. Fine began his career as a tennis coach in the United Kingdom. In the late 1970’s he worked with Graham Alexander and Sir John Whitmore using Timothy Gallwey’s Inner Game as part of their coaching process. An outcome of their work was the development of the performance model G.R.O.W. (Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward/Will).
Fine has coached athletes in Europe and the United States. They include Davis Cup tennis team member Buster Mottram, PGA member Stephen Ames, CBS golf commentator and Ryder Cup participant David Feherty, and European PGA golfers Colin Montgomery, Phillip Price, Paul Lawrie, Bradley Dredge and David Llewellyn. He has also worked with Professional Squash player Phil Kenyon, the British Olympic Fencing team and the Welsh Amateur Golf Team.
In 1985 Alan Fine founded InsideOut Development, a professional training and organizational consulting firm. He consults with individuals and organizations to increase performance, as well as providing executive coaching and leadership training.
Alan Fine is the author of Play to Win Golf (w/ David Feherty) and InsideOut Golf: How to Achieve Peak Performance as well as a contributing author to Coaching for Leadership by the Drucker Foundation. He is the author of the book InsideOut: Discovering and Doing What’s Possible. Fine has also contributed articles to GolfWorld and Golf International.
Basic ideas
Several principles common through Fine’s writings:
• Performance increase comes from the Inside Out
• Performance = Capacity – Interference
• Keys to performance – Faith (what people believe), Fire (what people have passion about) and Focus (what people pay attention to)
• Use of the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward)
• Change comes when a person is performance driven, not coach driven (dependent)
Biography
Alan Fine was born on June 12, 1953. He moved to the United States in 1993. He resides with his wife Penny and two children, Kristin and Tim, in Sandy, Utah.
References
Alan Fine profile at IE Consulting
Players Champion Credits InsideOut Founder GolfersMag.com
Nicholson, Ewan, The Truth about Stephen Ames, ScoreGolf Magazine, June 2008, pgs. 19, 22, 24-25
Fine, Alan (1999). InsideOut Golf: How to Achieve Peak Performance, ISBN: 0967253004
External Links
Website of InsideOut Development
ASTD June 2008 Keynote speech: Understanding and Influencing Breakthrough Performance
Hey there, I saw you participated in Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Jamesontai 2, so I concluded you are online at the moment. I !voted neutral just before you, citing a deleted page ( Creating new wikipedia article) that the candidate tagged CSD#A7. He replied that the page might have been updated after his tagging, so I'd like to ask if you could provide me a copy of the specific revision which he tagged as {{ db-a7}}. Regards So Why 10:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (166/43/7). I appreciate your comments and in my actions as an administrator I will endeavor to maintain the trust you have placed in me. I am honored by your trust and your support. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 01:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC) |
I put Korelko up on the translation board instead, if it's still a advert we can just speedy it later. Whispe ring 09:19, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Wow, thanks! I guess I don't really feel like anything has changed after my RfA. The only difference is that now I use block, protect, and delete rather than AIV, RFPP, and CSD. Cheers! J.delanoy gabs adds 17:51, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for adopting me, lets be friends, by the way i saw you were a socialist that is pretty funny. :) No Hollaback Girl ( talk) 10:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I should have noted the reason I posted on AN/I instead of RFPP. I was an admin once also, and amongst other things I actually started WP:AN. :-) Tbsdy lives ( talk) 11:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, SoWhy, I have a bit of a convoluted question for you!
I've noticed while reading about the United States Constitution that most articles on amendments to the Constitution are considered proper and capitalised as such, including the word Amendment itself. For example, Child Labor Amendment. There are several amendments in one place at List of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution, and scanning through that I see that each page on a specific amendment has been capitalised.
At United States Constitution#Unratified amendments I noticed that the article Titles of Nobility amendment does not capitalise the word amendment, which is different from the way that the others have been done. There is a redirect at Titles of Nobility Amendment and I checked its move log–there is nothing there to suggest that it used to be capitalised and was then changed. I also checked the history of the current article and see that it was created in 2003, and that the redirect was created a whole year later.
I've read the guidelines on WP:Naming conventions (capitalization) and have followed lots of the links to other related guidelines, and don't see anything specific on amendments. My best guess is that consistency is the ideal, and that as the majority of amendments have been capitalised, that this one should be, too. I'm a little bit wary, though, of making the move, or even suggesting it on the talk page. Do you think I should be bold and move "Titles of Nobility amendment" to "Titles of Nobility Amendment", putting the redirect at the former article instead, or should I propose it on the talk page first, or do you think I should keep my nose out of it and leave it all as is?
Hope that wasn't too confusing. :-/ Thanks! Maedin\ talk 12:45, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy. I would like to thank you for your support in my RfA and the confidence expressed thereby. It is very much appreciated. :) The RfA was closed as successful with 73 supports, 3 opposes and 4 neutral. I would especially like to thank WBOSITG for nominating me. Best wishes and thanks again, — αἰτίας • discussion• 22:51, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey, sorry I didn't get back to you right away. I intended to, then got bogged down with on and off wiki stuff. My activity is actually waning as of late due to personal issues, so I won't be able to adopt User:Leahtwosaints. By all means, if you have the time, adopt him/her : ) Cheers mate. Wisdom89 ( T / C) 20:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
...didn't you tell me you did this? Syn ergy 06:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
hello how are you. I got an antivandal tool which is pretty awesome. Any advice, Bye. by the way i found these things called barn stars and think you should get one
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message No Hollaback Girl ( talk) 06:37, 20 September 2008 (UTC) |
I understand that the approach for handling the underlying issue ("present" vs. numeric dates) is dispute resolution, but when did dispute resolution become the appropriate avenue to pursue NPA violations. Once he started with the names, they haven't stopped ... started with lazy, went to army brat, and proceeded to pain in the ass without a sense of humor on WP:ANI. There is admin intervention required ... an admonition to Mr. Cupertino that WP:NPA is policy, and warning him that he will be blocked even if others decide that he is right in the underlying dispute. Kww ( talk) 18:29, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks again for helping me, would it be ok to remove that section now? Ill leave it up to you «l| Ψrom3th3ăn ™|l» (talk) 10:52, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
so will you talk to me? i only effed up that article for attention —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.227.3.195 ( talk) 11:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
but why? trolling is so much more fun on wikipedia! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.227.3.195 ( talk) 12:57, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
aw, c'mon now, i thought we were building a relationship here! you can't just dump and ban me! we have a commitment! i want to make this wooork, don't leave me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.227.3.195 ( talk) 13:39, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Having trouble with User:Pieterbotha and User:Joe40oz. These two accounts were created only 3 minutes apart from each other and are editing similar pages, Mike McCurry (referee) and Ian Paisley, so I suspect they are sockpuppets at the very least. The information they are adding is libellous and defamatory. Twice at the Mike McCurry page and once at the Ian Paisley page, User:Pieterbotha has undone my edits undoing his edits. I think it's only a matter of time before he does the same at the Ian Paisley page, and I don't want to get into an edit war, lol. So, my questions are: do I report suspected sockpuppetry or do I need more solid evidence? Do I go to Mike McCurry where MY edits have been reverted and re-revert them? If so or if not, should I take this to a noticeboard for administrator attention, even though they technically haven't received the right number of warnings? Is it an edit war if it's just vandalism? Helllpppp :)))) Maedin\ talk 18:45, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my RfA nomination, SoWhy. I appreciate the confidence. Cbl62 ( talk) 06:05, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm considering nominating you for RfA.
Please could you list below your last 10 significant AfD contributions. I'm especially interested in seeing AfDs you've nommed, responded to first, or "swam against the tide", so if there's none of them in the last 10, feel free to make the list longer. -- Dweller ( talk) 09:18, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
That's fine, and helpful.
Q2 - answer/don't answer as you wish - what prompted the massive surge of editing in the last couple of months? What kind of level do you think you'd plateau at, medium term, say over the next six months or so? -- Dweller ( talk) 10:35, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
<e/c - I'll read the above in a mo'> Q3 Re: Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2008_August_24. I'd be interested to know what you now think about the debate surrounding your contributions at this DRV. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:54, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey SoWhy. Your RfA page was in my watchlist so I saw it anyway and decided to support straight off thinking it was live, but I had to revert that upon finding it wasn't. Anyway, I've been a bit bold and co-nommed you. Hope you don't mind. — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 16:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh my God (sorry I know you're an atheist), Congradulations SoWhy you're going to be an Administrator I'm so proud of you. If you need my support like in a vote or however you get elected just ask me. By the way I need some help, using my anti vandal software (Pretty Awesome) I find vandalised pages and I revert the edit but what do I if the vandal has made numerous edits when I revert the fist one the rest of the vandalisations are still there and when i revert the last one it says there has been a conflict of edits or something, help. No Hollaback Girl ( talk) 05:55, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Sure, I'll be happy to elaborate on that. Would you like me to explain my reasoning here, or on the RfA page? Cheers, – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 12:48, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
I built an article about Princess Marie (1874-1878), a granddaughter of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and posted it there. 24 later it was removed, because it was "not relevated for the German Wikipedia".
Here is an article about Marie, that's very well.
That's my problem in the German Wikipedia. I built articles and they were deleted.
The people here are yery nice. Better than in the German Wikipedia. -- AndreaMimi ( talk) 16:23, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
@SoWhy
How are you ?
You are right. Its very good to be here. I passed the A-Level with the mark "C" , but thats many years ago. I read some books in english and unterstand a lot of the sentences, not all.
In the German Wikipedia there are Austrians - like me - too. German and Austrian are different languages. ;)
I wish you a nice day. And hope I can come back there in the evening. Don't worry, all is well, for example my health.
But I have to do so many things, not here. :( They are a little bit important then the Wikipedia. -- AndreaMimi ( talk) 12:50, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
I study in Salzburg, but I live in Oberösterreich (you know, what Oberösterreich is ?) . It's the nearst university. I go by bus to Salzburg in the morning and returne in the evening. The next term starts on October 6.
I'm very sorry, that I think you are from Germany. Its a very bad mistake.
I hope, I'll see you this weekend. Tomorrow I have no time for the Wikipedia. But on the weekend.
My next projects are articles about: Rosemarie von Trapp (1929), Eleonore von Trapp Campbell (1931) and Johannes von Trapp (1939). There are less ressources and pictures too. But I try to give my best. -- AndreaMimi ( talk) 18:07, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Yes, you are right. The elections are in Austria on Sunday. Let's see, what happens. ;)
I want to have the Kings and Queens back. :( In Austria and in Germany. There are so many people, who have a King or/and a Queen in the family for example Georg Ferdinand of Hohenzollern (born 1976). He has neither a wife, not children.
He is free for me. ;)
Its a very hard work to find ressources about this members of the Trapp Family and pictures too. Johannes was in Austria in July of this year together with his halfsister Maria Franziska von Trapp. He speaks German, but he was born in Amerika. Rosemary works as a missionar and Eleonore, who was nicknamed "Lorli", is married to Hugh David Campbell (since 1954), has seven daugthers and a lot of grandchildren.
Ressource: William Anderson/David Wade, "The World of the Trapp Family", 1998. I have this book at home. It's easy to read.
I wish you a nice weekend. -- AndreaMimi ( talk) 21:15, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Why do I get the horrible, horrible feeling that your RfA is just going to become a battleground for and against religion? *sigh* — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 11:38, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing my userbox, too :) — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 16:56, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
There is one waiting for you. XF Law talk at me 06:01, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
As requested, I have cleaned up your RFA. fish& karate 13:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
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For constantly reverting vandalism from Wikipedia. Tohd8BohaithuGh1 ( talk) 19:59, 26 September 2008 (UTC) |
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Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (154/3/2). I appreciate the community's trust in me, and I will do my best to be sure it won't regret handing me the mop. I am honored by your trust and your support. Again, thank you. – Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 18:12, 27 September 2008 (UTC) |
Good answer to my question on trivia, you have my support. Good luck! - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 04:15, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Heyyy, thanks for the change to my userpage :)
I wanted to ask you, why do people put an exclamation mark in front of the word vote? !Vote seems a very silly euphemism to me for something that obviously means vote anyway, so . . . it can't be that, surely?
I also have a hypothetical question. Not hypothetical because I haven't come across the situation, but hypothetical because it was a while ago now and too late to actually do anything about it. An experienced user (recently became an admin, actually) reverted (using Huggle, I think) a good edit which had deleted some content within a section. The diff, however, made it fairly clear that it wasn't just a mass delete – select sentences were retained and sentence structures changed, and because I'm familiar with the article, I know that there has been on-going discussions regarding the need to drastically reduce the size of the article, so the edit was definitely on the right track. It was done by an IP though, and apart from the section heading, there was no edit summary. So, the person who reverted it made a booboo, in my opinion, and I seem to have been the only one to spot it. It's too late to just undo, so I plan to go back and edit the text to reflect the IP's original edit. So, having said all of that, the question is: should I have told the admin about his revert (not just an undo) to a perfectly acceptable edit? Should I go to the IP's talk page and delete the vandalism warning? Or do I go there and just leave a comment, saying that the warning was left in error? Or do I just let it go? Presumably, it isn't a mistake which is likely to happen again or very often.
And one other thing: did you get my email? It was ages ago now. And I sincerely apologise to you for getting involved, too, I had been trying to stay away! It seems like the more one tries to stay away, the more one is likely to then come charging in, guns blazing or sword raised or axe swinging or...ok, I've run out of weapons. Enjoy your Sunday! :) Maedin\ talk 13:48, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
I knowwwwwww, it's me again.
Here just to ask: what does (e/c) mean?
I see it the beginning of a line when someone responds to a comment which isn't the comment directly above theirs, so they usually un-indent to the appropriate margin, too. I tried googling it but I just got stuff on E=mc squared. Maedin\ talk 07:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for tidying that up :) Much needed, -- ROGER DAVIES talk 10:46, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you wery much for helping me in the begining I have learned a lot. No Hollaback Girl ( talk) 12:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
I've add a follow-up to an optional question you've already answered:
It seems reasonable to press for a more fully-developed comment and analysis. In my view, this is a hard, fast pitch, but it is not at all inappropriate in this context. Your answer will be read by a number of editors who would not necessarily pay much attention to what you do or say in other venues. This becomes a unique opportunity to affect the evolving consensus on a key point which comes up again and again in all sorts of circumstances.
Now that your elevation to the ranks of administrators is virtually assured, you have an opportunity to introduce a salutatory comment. In effect, my question becomes an invitation to convert this confirmation exercise into something constructive.C)
Asenine presented a lady or the tiger conundrum -- excellent, unavoidable, illuminating. The only correct answer is the one which illuminates the way in which the alternatives and consequences are evaluated. The question goes to the heart of the reasoning processes which inform good judgment. It also creates an opportunity to grapple with the most difficult challenge which the most highly-valued administrators face with grace and tact -- expressing themselves persuasively and constructively.
Diplomacy is sometimes the art of avoiding saying anything which might possibly cause a ripple of a problem to arise; and many appear to have been persuaded that this kind of non-specific diplomatic prose will serve Wikipedia's broader, long-term objectives. I see the merit in that cautious, restrained attitude; however, in my view, in this very limited setting, that approach is misplaced. This is a unique opportunity and a more revealing answer to a difficult question should be seen as appropriate, seemly, and welcome. -- Tenmei ( talk) 16:37, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Just saw your RfA closed as successful! Congrats! Nice userbox, by the way :) Erik the Red 2 ~~ ~~ 01:50, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
It seems that you just got promoted. Good luck. I am sure someone else will come along shorty to give you your shirt. Now, get to work!- Icewedge ( talk) 01:51, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations on your promotion. I have no doubt that you'll be an excellent admin. Also I was very impressed with the grace and dignity you showed during the RfA process. Be well, X MarX the Spot ( talk) 02:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, thanks everyone, I am really really surprised as to how many people supported my RfA. I will not send out RfA-thank-spam but thank you all for !voting on it here. Have a wonderful day! :-) So Why 06:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Can you tell me what you are taking to be a claim of notability? I only see an assertion that he is a writer, a few notes about what he has written, and an assertion that he is working as an archivist. — Largo Plazo ( talk) 07:06, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy, congrats on your RfA! Just a note about RfPP requests; it's probably not necessary to remove requests shortly after fulfilment, as they eventually get removed by a bot. I don't know about you, but I generally preferred to leave the requests there in case anyone queried it shortly after occurrence. Just some food for thought. :) Congrats again! PeterSymonds (talk) 09:01, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Welcome to adminship :) I'll join you, someday! You're my first nomination (well, co-nom) too :) Have fun! — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 14:46, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Why'd you delete my article? It said it didn't show significance of a real person, Andrew Bradt IS real! He's just not well known... yet. | Nitsed00 ( talk) 20:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)Love Always, Dan :]<3
hi
you have just deleted the newly created page of eMailaya because it an advertisement how come incerdimail does have a page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredimail and i can not put one of my own?
thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emailaya ( talk • contribs) 07:46, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Doh! My bad for trying to speedy it, I blame the lack of coffee. - TexMurphy ( talk) 08:20, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
When blocking educational institutes for an extended period of time (>1 month), consider using {{ schoolblock}} as the blocking reason - this way when a (potentially good faith) person tries to edit from the school they will be shown the template and given guidance on how to edit around the block. – xeno ( talk) 14:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy! If the talk page of an IP contains a warning or warnings, can I revert / undo if the IP blanks the page? This removal of a warning happened only a minute after it was placed, and I checked the article's diff to make sure it was vandalism (it was). Maedin\ talk 19:00, 2 October 2008 (UTC)